Dutch Uncle
Campaign Veteran
In another thread I commented how it was typical for someone in the Brady Campaign to be interviewed any time some major firearm event made the news, but other groups with larger and more right wing membership are rarely heard from. A poster here recently asked about some official counts of membership for the various pro freedom groups.
Well, I did a little checking, and it comes out approximately like this:
NRA: 4 million plus
CCRKBA: 650,000
Second Amendment Foundation: 350,000
GOA: 300,000+
Now for the Anti Freedom Group:
Brady Campaign: 50,500 (In one document they stated their 2004 membership was "about a half million")
For all their bluster and BS, the Brady Bunch is nothing but a tiny and nearly irrelevant radical fringe group which would otherwise be completely ignored were it not for the Mainstream Media's desperate need to get their agenda out there. The Media needs to keep this group going so they will have a willing shill to carry their anti-2nd Amendment bigotry to the masses. It would be great to see a debate on Fox News asking all these organizations their own take on why they fill the niches they do. If Brady and Helmke were asked to explain why they were so often blown up in the viewers' eyes as great heros of civilization, when they are really rather minor players in a radical fringe group, the answers would be very very dramatic and filled with many stories from their archives telling us how fortunate we are to have them.
Well, I did a little checking, and it comes out approximately like this:
NRA: 4 million plus
CCRKBA: 650,000
Second Amendment Foundation: 350,000
GOA: 300,000+
Now for the Anti Freedom Group:
Brady Campaign: 50,500 (In one document they stated their 2004 membership was "about a half million")
For all their bluster and BS, the Brady Bunch is nothing but a tiny and nearly irrelevant radical fringe group which would otherwise be completely ignored were it not for the Mainstream Media's desperate need to get their agenda out there. The Media needs to keep this group going so they will have a willing shill to carry their anti-2nd Amendment bigotry to the masses. It would be great to see a debate on Fox News asking all these organizations their own take on why they fill the niches they do. If Brady and Helmke were asked to explain why they were so often blown up in the viewers' eyes as great heros of civilization, when they are really rather minor players in a radical fringe group, the answers would be very very dramatic and filled with many stories from their archives telling us how fortunate we are to have them.
